EdEarl

Tonight a BBC ' Horizon Presentation ' revealed a coincidence for our time .

 

A researcher in Russia .. Dimitri Iscoff in conjunction with Prof . Kahall . Are building an Android with the mental. capacity similar to a Human being . They mention the equivalent in electronics of 80,000,000,000 storage and processing cells. Which they state is coincidentally , to , a similar capacity as the Human Brain.

 

Dimitri believes it might be possible to transfer his life to a metallic devise , which he says in Theory he may be able to live for Ever.

 

The Coincidence being that , Now , is the time it is possible to have the capability to build a female looking android ( metallic ) , with the same capacity of the human mind (Physical Brain cells ) . They even showed us what she looked like ! ( quite Cute ! )

 

Mike

 

Ps . There was talk of transferring the experience in the opposite direction , as the Female android has already been taught quite a bit already ! Eek ! Watch out you might be smiling at an android !

IMO this adventure will succeed in about 50 years because ATM computing power is insufficient and understanding of biological systems that need to be simulated is inadequate.

Vote or become a politician. I hate that deluded fools get to vote, but it's the best system I know.

Think about where it would be if it didn't fall. It would go straight ahead and would be nearly out of the Solar System by now.

Depends on the orbit, it might end up in the Sun or elsewhere in the solar system.

Here is a link to Facebook that has on Open Letter to Donald Trump from Brendon Stanton, "the photographer behind the wildly popular Humans of New York Facebook page." I haven't seen Humans of New York and hadn't heard of Brandon Stanton (BS lol), before. The letter is scalding.

We unfortunately deal with 10 year, 20 year, and hundred year problems with four year plans and solutions. Democracy doesn't have a safeguard to deal with the really big problems.

How do you propose to deal with the really big problems?

You will need to specify the width of the water slide.

There are two strands of DNA per cell, I think, on mitochondrial, same as your mothers, and one in your cell nucleus, a combination of father and mother.

A strand of DNA is about a meter long with about 3 billion (3 thousand million) base pairs.

IDK the diameter of human DNA; some here should.

A benevolent, genius dictator might govern better than democracy, and not make people feel enslaved. However, power corrupts. There is no ideal government AFAIK. Do you have a proposal?

 

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill

 

Better to bicker than be enslaved.

Come to Southern Ontario, Canada.

The people are just like Americans, only nicer.

From rural to big city in less than an hour.

And your dollar goes a lot farther.

The winters are too cold right now, but maybe one day.

I think you are referring to cautious. Women are generally smaller and weaker than men, which makes them cautious, and that sometimes makes them seem cold. But, everyone is different and you may have run across an unusual distribution of women.

Strange question.

There's not much more can be said about free fall. Just memorize this post, #2, #4, #6, #8 and #9 and you are an expert.

I think the charge will drain away slowly as photons hit the charged surface of the orbiter.

It is defined that way. You are describing a special case that does not result in an orbit.

The ISS is traveling close to 20,000 m/h (32,000 km/h). If the Earth's gravity didn't pull down, it would fly in a straight line. The effect of the two, gravity and forward speed, means it falls towards the Earth, but flies forward fast enough that it cannot fall into the Earth. Thus, it is in free fall (always falling) and moving forward fast.

 

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong

We are going into space, which I think is historic, but not an accident. There are currently plans by the

Russia plans to put a man on the moon by 2030, and the Europeans want a piece of the action.

China hopes to put a man on the moon by 2030.

Mars.One plans to put people on Mars sometime after 2025.

popsci.com reports Golden Spike, a Hawaiian company is selling trips to the moon for $750M.

NASA is babbling about a trip to Mars and back, but currently Congress won't fund such a thing. Although, with Russia and China making plans, they might stand up, rest their brains a moment, and do something for a change.

 

The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems.[1][2][3] Neither the International Commission on Stratigraphy nor the International Union of Geological Sciences has yet officially approved the term as a recognized subdivision of geological time.[3][4][5]

 

The term "Anthropocene"—which appears to have been used by Soviet scientists as early as the 1960s[6] to refer to the Quaternary, the most recent geological period—was used with a different sense in the 1980s[7] by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer and has been widely popularized by atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behavior on Earth's atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological epoch for its lithosphere. A January 2016 paper in Science investigating climatic, biological, and geochemical signatures of human activity in sediments and ice cores suggested the era since the mid-20th century should be recognised as a distinct geological epoch from the Holocene.[8]

I wouldn't approach it as an offset to automation taking jobs. It should me a minimum amount of resources so anyone can subsist on it while looking for work. Low-cost housing, healthy food, I guess some sort of basic clothing. If we had universal healthcare, and free access to education up to the college level, those bases are already covered.

 

Nobody homeless, ignorant, sick, or hungry. A level below which a citizen of the USA doesn't have to go.

 

We could have this for basically nothing. Just use the money we spend incarcerating drug-only offenders.

I agree, we should not wait for automation, but it doesn't appear such a thing will be done anytime soon, and automation is coming on strong.

 

 

What else is needed?

A drug program like Portugal. Cutting defense spending. Improving schools, the current effort is a mess according to my wife, a teacher. She spends too much time on paperwork instead of teaching, and she works too much overtime Imo.

 

Perhaps we need a minimum subsistence standard below which they can't make any more cuts. Then we might be able to weather their insanity until they have no more power.

I think it is an idea whose time has come. In fact I think it's inevitable as automation takes over more an more jobs. It's not all that's needed, but it would go a long way.

 

What are we abandoning?

The GOP finds any minutia as reason to abandon social programs. They don't often succeed, but they make a lot of noise and try try again. And, yest they "improve" programs, making them less effective and too expensive.

Room for improvement is a human condition. It shouldn't be used as an exclusive reason to abandon something in need of improvement.

Texas politicians are mostly god fearing, and trying to change school curriculum to exclude evolution and include creationism (demigod...demigism) and we now have a law that allows one to carry a gun almost anywhere to protect themselves from citizens (i.e., social studies target practice).

The government in Taxachusetts is demigism, and to get an A in social studies requires five out of five bulls eyes on the final.

I'd check out the mountains of Honduras, where one can have eternal spring.